ninety-eight calls tonight, 12 contacts -- a rough go there.  last night was volunteer calls, people already IDed as interested in helping out, friendlies.  tonight was back to GOTV calls, that demographic slice called "undecided," and the folks who hadn't answered their phones the first 100 calls.  my call volume was so high due to non-answers, ( Read more... )

made exactly 50 calls tonight.  had a spanish speaker, luckily found a fluent speaker in phonebank to talk to her, set her up with a canvass, memo to self, learn more spanish, si se puede.  spread the word of early voting in arlington, and notched myself in the books.  i voted a few hours ago ( Read more... )

i love this...

"What offended me and made me sad about those ['Real Virginia'] comments," said Glakas, a resident for many years in northern Virginia, "is that I've been to every county, every part of this state. What's best about Virginia is its diversity. The people, the geography. We have every class, every race, an amazing immigrant population ( Read more... )

made almost 50 calls tonight, 10 good touches, two or three of the incidental variety -- where a listed voter wasn't home, but chatted with the person who answered the phone.  talking to people is great, srsly, peeps, after the first three or four doors knocked or numbers called, fear melts away, you are there with history.   virginia is yearning ( Read more... )

Seeing beauty was going to keep me alive.

thanks, neal.  through these peculiar, quiet, and somewhat disappointing turns of my 30s, that's the main wisdom i've derived.

meanwhile, the novel is an absolute joy thus far -- nothing keeps most of my dork ADD arcs lit than trying to keep straight all of the book's mixed and tweaked analogues of our own ( Read more... )

break out the party hats.

knock on some doors:

So if you go out one four-hour walk shift every weekend between now and the election, you've generated -- on average -- six extra votes from people who would not otherwise have voted for your candidate.

rinse, repeat.

short selling financial company stocks banned, selling itself next? take that, islamofascists. we are so close to fulfilling the dream, my friends, stock markets only go up. to keep the joke going, welcome to zimbabwe.

in financial terms, immanentizing as we speak.

btw, the lobster metaphor is quite disturbing, since ostensibly we DO NOT want to boil the u.s. credit rating and eat it.

so now treasury is backstopping the fed (which now accepts equities, btw, can i swap some lehman/fannie/freddie/bear stearns/aig/merrill lynch/wamu/wachovia/morgan stanley/goldman sachs shares for a bridge loan, ben?), world markets are tanking too, so no chinas or russias or dubais to the rescue, gold is currently up $70. no reports of bank runs ( Read more... )